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Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools

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Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools. Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. Or is it big picture, such as learning how to collaborate more effectively with others?

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

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Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. One spot will house tables where students can connect their tablets to a large video monitor. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. For its part, St.

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Sphero, LittleBits and Other Robots Bring Technology to Life

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Now the school has about 20 models, along with apps students can use on their tablets or Chromebooks to learn the basics of programming. By eighth grade, they’re incorporating the device into classroom science and math experiments , such as learning how to plot linear equations. At Nathaniel Morton Elementary in Plymouth, Mass.,

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Blending in Technology Boosts K–12 Instruction

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In California, students at Chula Vista Elementary School District’s Salt Creek Elementary improved their scores by 137 percent over the state average on California’s performance exams in the first year of introducing a blended learning program. . MORE FROM EDTECH: How to keep accessibility in mind for the modern K–12 classroom.

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Why K–12 Students Need to Be Taught to Guard Their Data Online

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Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . It seems schools haven’t taught students how — or why — to keep personal information safe.

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Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education

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We deployed primarily Chromebooks , and went with the newer Chrome Tablets for kindergarten, first and second grade. Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how to create your own modern learning classroom! Photo: Rachel Gorton.

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Make This the Year That You Take On Ambitious IT Projects in Your School

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“It works well for giant projects like museum displays, science fair projects, but it also works well for weekly vocabulary assignments,” says Robyn Tanksley, third-grade teacher at the Sexton Mountain Elementary School in Beaverton, in a video about Adobe Spark. . Experiment with new tech too. It gives them a little swagger,” Beeck said.

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